13th December 2008
Bramhall Park was slightly less muddy than Sherdley Park but the rain came down even harder. Despite this over 80 people just couldn't resist. Prominent amongst these was Catriona who despite looking very relaxed finished 3rd lady. Just in front of Cat, Ian Ashcroft remains joint second in his category after equalling his course PB – but Ian needs to find just under 3 minutes to go to the top of the VM60 table. His gritty performance in the mud today may well have caught the eye of the XC captain.
Having just missed out on the GB team for Brussels, Steve Vernon decided that Bramhall was the obvious plan B and set out gamely to break his course record. But even Steve couldn't escape the conditions and having skidded out of the woods on the first lap wisely slowed down and "jogged" the second lap Bashir Hussain ran in strongly to take the V40 course record decisively out of my reach and on a better day Eleanor Baker would have challenged the course record.
1 Steve Vernon 15:19 (84.22%)
2 Bashir Hussain 16:25 (85.08%)
3 Eleanor Baker 18:00 (82.22%)
22 Ian Ashcroft 22.28 (73.29%)
26 Catriona Marshall 22:53 (67.44%)
83 finished 5k
Full results, photos etc. at www.bramhall.parkrun.com
Rob
REMEMBER: Saturday 20th December – Christmas Special – festive outfits, Nina's mince pies, bring some mulled wine. Jim will attempt to become parkrun's first "sub 17 Santa". We'll also be celebrating our 1000th different runner.
Bramhall parkrun – every Saturday – it makes you faster (well maybe not next week).